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Tiffani Ashley Bell

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Tiffani Ashley Bell is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Water Project, a platform connecting donors from around the world to people in Detroit and Baltimore needing assistance with water bills. Since its founding in late July 2014, the platform has collected over $230,000 in payments and is a Y Combinator-backed non-profit. She was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta, GA and previously, was the CEO + founder of Pencil You In, enabling operate more efficiently by accepting appointments online. Tiffani is a front and back-end developer working primarily with Ruby on Rails and iOS. Tiffani holds a BS in Computer Science from Howard University.
Detroit, MI October 17, 2015
Utility Data for Social Good at the Detroit Water Project

What happens when people in Silicon Valley and others spread all throughout the world band together to use technology for people startups typically overlook? Amazing things. Tiffani Ashley Bell, the Executive Director and co-founder of the Detroit Water Project, talks about lessons learned in using tech to help with non-first world problems.